, 1887-11-11
THE MASTER MINDS
Guiding Newspapers and Big Public
Demonstrations.

August Spies, a keen. cynical Hessian.
with the subtle intellectual vigor of an
lago, was editor in chief of the Arbeiter.
The iaunty, dare devil little Texan Albert
r. Parsons, brother of a Confederate gem
eral. presided over the Alarm At the
head of the anarchist, George Engel, an
other Hessiau, but of a coarse, brutal
type, out Heroded the most blood thirsty
utterances of his compeers. While Sam
Fielden, the Englishman, sullen looking,
shaggy and forbidding, but as an agitator
simply volcanic, and Oscar Neebe, the
polished, attractive German American or
g~anizer, were more especially concerned in
other than journalistic branches of the
propaganda, they were, nevertheless,
among the directors respectively of the
Alarm and the Arbeiter ZeitWng. The
gaunt Bavarian Michael Schwab was
Spies assistant editor, and his fellow
countrymen, Adolph Fischer, he OF the
poisoned dagger, was the Arbeiter'S head
foreman.
Not one of these m~en-however they
might split hairs, could candidly deny
that he was instrumental TO a greater or
less degree in helping on the catastrophe
at the Haymarket. OF the legal guilt of
each nothing need be said further than
that its certainty was put to tests seldom
if ever paralleled.
During the long months preceding the
bomb throwing the defendants one and all
were necessarily active in
AGTTATING AND ORGANIZING
in demonstrations" and Experiments"
Their speeches and articles fairly bristled
with imprisoned appeals for the laboring
rnnrln 70 rrnuiAa thnnSalunG nith fro
arms and dynamite. Specific instructions
we're given how to handle and use the ex-
plosive, and how to make bombs and how
to procure weapons. All this was stated
by the couspiratOrs to be making ready
for the coming social revolution" What
was meant by social revolution was not
left to be vaguely inferred, nor was the
time when it was to be inaugurated a
dim uncertainty Of the future. The
revolution was frequently defined in
speech and writing as a sudden, bloody,
forclble uphcaval of the right of private
ownership OF property. then the bringing
about of a state of society in which all
property should be held in common.
Incredible as it may seem, the avowed
purpose was
TO DELUGE THE | IN BLOOD
OF lnb property ONulnR CldSScs, uISI ut-
stroying the police and militia, who were
derided as their special champions. The
period of confusion developing from the
mammoth strikes of the first of May,
1886, was definitely announced months be
fore as the time when the fearful bolt
should fall. Pitiless as was this pro-
gramme and difficult as a belief is that it
ever was contemplated by men, the facts
as stated were a%bundantly proven in
court.
The diabolism was fully shared in by
wsmen. Especially 50 was this the case
in the.
FANTASTIC PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS
like the red flag professions of ragamuf-
fins with torches that attempted at night
to enter the magnificent new board OF
trade when the dedication festivities of
the institution had for the time being
transformed the huge building into a
scene of social brilliance without a local
precedent. The repuisive, disappearing
intruders of both sexes were sternly forced
back at the muzzles of three dozen police
r~evolvers. In affairs like this the dusky
wife of Parsons and other no less desper-
ate women seemed in their proper element.
OF the many other queer outbreaks pre-.
ceding the Haymarket tragedy. the most
startling at the time, perhaps, was the
parade Thanksgiving day, when in ridi-
cule of President Cleveland proclamation